#iri

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. ↗

— Allen West

#american #american people #dependency #economic #else

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence now. It had tasted something, rich food on which it had long been thinly rationed. Shadowy things were trooping up, called by that scent of blood, like flies that smell carrion. They were not strangers to the old house; they had been ill-fed and at a distance, now they were hungry and avid and near. ↗

— Evangeline Walton

#ghost #horro #supernatural #food

I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. ↗

— Yann Martel

#food

If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently on course to learn similarly grave lessons from other devastating technologies such Genetically Modified Foods, Chemtrails and HAARP. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #gmo #god #haarp

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#alleged #avoided #been #ceased #having

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#days #drunk #ford #got #great

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#lose #sometimes #soul #spirit #victories

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#spirituality #forgiveness

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country. ↗

— Emma Willard

#concerning #country #female #i #inquiring

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#country #day #doubt #embodied #end